Stretching the definition a little, searching text from a single subject wiki like Wyoming's Author Wiki can count as a database.

Records in a database may be surrogates (meaning they describe an object) or they may be the objects themselves (like a database of full-text electronic government reports).

What doesn't count as a database? Links to top level pages for States or their agencies. This project isn't aiming to be an agency directory as most state websites already do a good job of that. Neither is it really intended to be a 50-State, "cool links" list because other sites like 50states.com are fulfilling that role, at least in part.

If you think that a resource is VERY useful even if it doesn't meet the above criteria, please put it on the "Not Databases" page at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Not_Databases. This page is for both state agency resources that are NOT databases and for databases that are not produced by state agencies.

Please use the talk tab for this page or e-mail Daniel Cornwall if the explanation above doesn't make sense to you.